Newly discovered cell type plays crucial role in immune response to respiratory infections and explains how Covid-19 convalescent plasma helps to boost immune responses in virus-infected patients.
With a discovery that could rewrite the immunology textbooks, an international group of scientists, including the teams of Bart Lambrecht, Martin Guilliams, Hamida Hammad, and Charlotte Scott (all from the VIB-UGent Center for Inflammation Research) identified a new type of antigen-presenting immune cell. These cells, that are part of an expanding family of dendritic cells,